Obviously, at that point it would be better to get the ball back down by a score, rather than to give them a shot at a game winner from 25 yards out after allowing them to run the clock out. But I would imagine it would be awfully difficult to just give him that touchdown.

A few weeks ago, Brian Westbrook had a touchdown to put the eagles up by TWO scores and he had the smarts to get down, and kill the clock. I don't know Garrard very well, but I would believe that if we were intentionally letting him run into the end zone, he would slide and go down. No way he struts his way into the endzone.

Great idea in theory though. At least I think...

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"Now that I'm here, I don't want to just be here, I want to be here for a long time." Hines Ward, 1998 3rd round draft pick.

didn't Green Bay do that with Denver in the Super Bowl and then ended up winning? i'm probably wrong but i do remember Terrell Davis just strutting in, being let in by whatever team they were playing so they could get the ball back. I just can't remember exactly what team and if they won or lost. So, basically I'm an idiot.

once again, i have to apologize to everyone here. I personally lost the game for the Steelers again by going to the game in person the same way I did for the Cards and the Jets this year. Only this time the drive home had no Pensod ipod magic and it was 6 hours long....

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I don't remember the game you are actually talking about, but I don't doubt that it has happened before. I was totally shocked when Westbrook didn't go into the endzone in the Eagles game. That was a total heads up play. Totally selfless too.

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"Now that I'm here, I don't want to just be here, I want to be here for a long time." Hines Ward, 1998 3rd round draft pick.

didn't Green Bay do that with Denver in the Super Bowl and then ended up winning? i'm probably wrong but i do remember Terrell Davis just strutting in, being let in by whatever team they were playing so they could get the ball back. I just can't remember exactly what team and if they won or lost. So, basically I'm an idiot.

once again, i have to apologize to everyone here. I personally lost the game for the Steelers again by going to the game in person the same way I did for the Cards and the Jets this year. Only this time the drive home had no Pensod ipod magic and it was 6 hours long....

That did happen. It was the second of the GB SBs in a row and the first win for Denver. Very late in the game and Denver had the ball inside the 5. GB let 'em score to go ahead as you described. But the Broncos hung on and won that one.

It's a sorry decision to have to make. I don't remember the score at the time, though. Would a Denver FG win it? If so, then they probably did the right thing. But if the Broncos needed a TD then it was a cunt like move. You gotta suck it up, stop 'em and win.

In no way is this similar to the Steelers/Jags situation. The Jags were 4th and 2 at their 40 some odd. You gotta stop that.

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I think the only way that's an option is if they allow the Jags to score on the first play from the 10. No one has the time to think about that during a play. Even on the Westbrook play, Runyon talked to him about it before the snap. GB planned it during a time out. Perhaps we should have done the same thing after the Garrard run, left ourselves about 1:20, but either way chances are that we end the game in a loss.

Per Jonzr, the thing to do is tackle Garrard...which is made much easier if you have a safety back who can actually tackle.

While the idea sounds good in hindsight, it was Heinz Field and no FG is automatic. Ask Romo about "automatic" kicks in the playoffs. Maybe there is a bad snap, maybe it gets blocked, maybe the kicker straight up misses ( a la TEN's short playoff kick, minus the roughing the kicker penalty). Never ever willingly allow points. There was too much that could have happened, and frankly I'm a little surprised JAX didn't kick on 3rd down....Whatever, the kick was good and game over. Allowing a 4th and 2 30 yard run wasn't very helpful either.

I'm with SteelerFaninCo....you hafta force the longest kick you can. That field gets in every kicker's head, well, except maybe Reed's.

And I'm not sure he isn't fucking insane already.

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